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Essays, interviews, and projects explore an expanded vocabulary of spatial practice.Architecture exists in the public sphere and is the product of collective work and knowledge. Yet the defining boundaries of the discipline are often contested. Architects can and often must embody a spectrum of characters in their practice- politician, artist, physicist, entrepreneur. Likewise, a building is the nexus of multifaceted economies, legislations, and information systems. Since ""architecture"" has become a metonym for increasingly distributed persons and practices, how-and for whom-do we establish its domain? To trace the evolving meanings of the term ""domain"" is to trace the changing ways that space has been defined, accessed, and constructed- from domain as a territory of private ownership or legal control; to the egalitarian promise of public domain; to an Internet site situated within an infinitely dispersed global network. Each of these shifts poses dramatic changes to how we conceive of boundaries, physically and conceptually. But as we insist on staking boundaries, we are impelled to search for their limits-however remote or nebulous. This issue of Perspecta-the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America-offers an initial expedition into the contested spaces of architecture's domains. Perspecta 44's multidisciplinary scope, with contributors ranging from legal scholars to software engineers, asserts a new set of coordinates for mapping the terms of architectural production. By embracing the inherent complexities of Domain, Perspecta 44 seeks to overcome the architect's conventional repertoire-Site, Program, and Client-and propose instead Field, Protocol, and User as an expanded vocabulary for spatial practice, not without boundaries but rather abiding by the shifting logics and contours of public space. Contributors BakaFilms, R. Howard Bloch, Craig Buckley, Mario Carpo, common room, Peggy Deamer, Neil Denari, Forum for Urban Design, Sophie Houdart, Sam Jacob, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Bruno Latour, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Meier, Ralitza Petit, Nasser Rabbat, Casey Reas and Ben Fry et al. Michael Rock, C. Dana Tomlin, Stuart Wrede

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Author:   Tala Gharagozlou ,  David Sadighian ,  Ryan Welch
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Volume:   44
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780262516396

ISBN 10:   026251639
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   16 September 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface, by Tala Gharagozlou and David Sadighian The Pedigreed Domain of Architecture: A View from the Cultural Margin, by Nasser Rabbat Viollet-le-Duc's ""Republic of Architectural Art"": The Greco-Gothic Revival and the Building of Modern France, by R Howard Block How (Far) Does Culture go? Kengo Kuma and His Architecture, by Sophie Houdart One Text and Eight Projects, by Office Kersten Geers and David Van Severen HL23: Three Public Domains, by Neil Denari Public Territories and Reclaimed Infrastructure: A Panel Discussion on the High Liine and Hudson River Park, by The Forum from Urban Design, New York, NY, November 17, 2010 Why Do Architects Read Latour?, An Interview with Bruno Latour ""A Definite and Persistent Monster"": Tony Smith's Urban Vision, by Craig Buckley The Craftsman and the Curator, by Mario Carpo Avatar-Space: The Ego Inc., by Ralitza Petit Vox Populi/Vox Dei: Richard Meier Builds in Tor Tre Teste, by BekaFilms and Richard Meier, with Perspecta 44 The 5 Obstructions (For Architecture), by common room Revisiting 1968-69: On Novum Organum and Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Stuart Wrede Dot Dot Dot., by Sam Jacob Mapping What Isn't Quite There, by C Dana Tomlin Processing Architecture, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry el al. Practicing Practice, by Peggy Deamer Graphic Design in the Expanded Field, An Interview with Michael Rock, 2x4, New York, NY, July 27, 2010 Re-crafting a Public Domain, by Lawrence Lessig"

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Tala Gharagozlou is an architect and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. David Sadighian is a writer and curator and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. Ryan Welch is an architect and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.

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